If you had put them there already then those are correct
When selecting quotations you should never change the meaning of the quotation by changing the context.
Answer:
A. Workhouse authorities were extremely careless in their duties
This is because the passage doesn't say anything about children being weak due to poor nourishment nor parishioners wrongly criticizing their own officials, and if the legal system carefully monitored parish affairs then children wouldn't be getting scalded to death or overlooked.
Pride is a powerful factor in an individual's behavior; it can also be the downfall of that individual.
This sentence is a complex sentence. It is composed of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses connected to it.
Pride is a powerful factor in an individual's behavior - independent clause
it can also be the downfall of that individual - dependent clause
